THE MONSOON

Today we celebrate the monsoon.
Will we then come to hate the monsoon?

All night, I danced with him in the rain.
What could it not create, the monsoon.

She thought of love as flood.  Was she wrong?
By then it was too late.  The monsoon.

Clouds wear black masks and carry guns, wash
us away, no debate, the monsoon.

By now, the wind is nothing to me.
I am storm.  I translate the monsoon.

Written by 

Katherine West lives in Southwest New Mexico, near Silver City. She has written three collections of poetry: The Bone Train, Scimitar Dreams, and Riddle, as well as one novel, Lion Tamer. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Writing in a Woman's Voice, Lalitamba, Bombay Gin, New Verse News, Tanka Journal, Splash!, Eucalypt, Writers Resist, Feminine Collective and Southwest Word Fiesta. New Verse News nominated her poem And Then the Sky for a Pushcart Prize in 2019. In addition she has had poetry appear as part of art exhibitions at the Light Art Space gallery in Silver City, New Mexico, the Windsor Museum in Windsor, Colorado, and the Tombaugh Gallery in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She is also an artist.

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